<p>At 40k yearly, they actually let this happen to your kid?????</p>
<p>The</a> Harvard Crimson :: Magazine :: Groton Not Forgotten</p>
<p>wow, thats scary stuff.</p>
<p>Yeah. At that high a tuition, my expectation is that my kid is at the very least going to be safe. Or maybe that is too high an expectation. My inner city school is safer than that.</p>
<p>They should really have a zero tolerance of hazing policy in place. The risk with BS is that you expose you kid to the bad stuff if there's any 24/7, which is why when something like this can happen it's worse than a inner city school - you wouldn't be attacked while you are sleeping at least. By the way, do all the school have "zero tolerance policy" to drugs now? or how do they address drug related issues?</p>
<p>Get real, watertester. The level of tolerance is a function of the potential of the family involved to donate. The greater the potential, the greater the tolerance. If your kid is on aid, the tolerance is zero. All institutions act in their best financial interest.</p>
<p>For some reason I doubt that...</p>
<p>If kids on aid do something like that, I agree it's a waste of both his parents' and the school's effort. He'd better get out of there immediately. With the wealthy and powerful, I don't want to be so "cynical" as you suggested but sadly what you said might be true to a certain degree.</p>
<p>A very small degree. If you are a billionaire and you molest someone, the school will lose all its reputation if they keep you just because you are a rich dud.</p>
<p>This is really freaking me out! I was nervous enough about my son boarding! Why don't they have locks on the dorm doors? That would at least prevent other kids from being able to do this while a kid is sleeping! They could have locks and give the dorm parents a universal key so they could still get in.</p>
<p>Principalviola, if you are a billionaire and molest someone then you have enough money to hush it up. Everything has its price, including silence. You are a very bright kid, but it will take years for you to see that this is true.</p>
<p>I'd be so *<strong><em>ing *</em></strong>ed if I got molested, the country would know before daybreak.</p>
<p>If the parent of the molester is wealthy, he or she would buy your silence. Guaranteed.</p>
<p>It's actually a pretty complicated story (like most are, I presume). Here is a different view:
The</a> Boy Who Cried Rape - Boston Magazine</p>
<p>With what... A billion dollars? two billion? I don't think so... Maybe who knows, praying that this s h i t doesn't happen to me or my peers at BS. This article really got me thinking about super elitist jerks... Ohh welll..</p>
<p>Thanks for article, Neato.</p>
<p>I had heard about this long before my son applied, so naturally, I tried to find out as much as I could about it.</p>
<p>I guess the folks at Groton are not happy that I opened this thread. Sorry.</p>
<p>Principal I think you need to grow up a little and understand a little more. If a kid on full FA gets caught doing something against the rules...you can pretty much guess they're out. When your parent is on the board and owner of a company that donates to the school regularly....they may get out with a simple suspension.</p>
<p>Money talks...money controls a lot of things. Whether you want to think it or not. A kid in my school got caught smoking week...but he's rich, didn't even get suspended.</p>
<p>Principalviola is exceedingly talented and bright but nevertheless naive. That is to be expected.</p>
<p>Look I am not naive. I understand, especially since my current school peers love to exploit with their riches, that money does a lot of crap...</p>
<p>Molesting is beyond that, especially forced molesting... There are LAWS against that, laws a lot worse than Statutory rape... Would he pay the police officer a few billion? If that worked Gates wouldn't have been charged with anti competitiveness... Maybe I am wrong... Believe me, I know that money buys a lot of things that are immaterial, I thought this kind of offense is beyond that.</p>
<p>Don't tell me to grow up without knowing where I come from. In a county a few miles from where I used to live a 17 yo got caught with forced sexual interaction. His Dad was a bigshot and his son still got the same consequences. Maybe you are right, but I don't base my opinions/thoughts with things I pulled up from my ***... I base it on experiences and factual knowledge.</p>